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Originally Posted by Leutnant77

Next patrol, Type VIIB Boat;
Was en route to my patrol zone off the coast of Ireland when I ran into my first convoy. Since its only May 1940, the escorts were light (I'm assuming they get a lot harder). As I approached the convoy, the trailing Destroyer escort picked me up and was at full steam to my boat. Shot off 2 Eels at him head on and sunk him (boat 1), then the other escort from the front of the convoy came full steam at me. To my surprise, it was a armed trawler, no depth charges on board. He steamed over my head without detecting me and I lined up the Aft tube and sank him (boat 2). Then went crazy on the convoy. Caught up with the convoy, sank a Coastal Merchant (boat 3), T2 Tanker (boat 4), surfaced the boat and sank another T2 Tanker with torpedoes and a C2 Cargo with the deck gun (boats 5 and 6). While torpedoes were reloading, sank another Small Merchant with the deck gun (boat 7). Remaining forward torpedoes reloaded, took out another T2 Tanker (boat 8). Now out of forward torpedoes, out of 88 mm AP rounds, with on lone Aft torpedo left, lined up on the last big ship, a C2 Cargo and sent her to the bottom (boat 9). In total, on one patrol, 51,615 tons of English junk sent to the bottom.

These two patrols along with several other have now put me right behind Gunther Prien on my "Aces" list. He has 168K tons to my 138K tons. Yar!

Well, if you are going to waste three torpedoes in stock on a DD and a trawler, you are quite right to think 51K a good patrol.